Online Does reprinting an article infringe copyright? What kind of articles can be reprinted?
Copyright was called copyright in the past, because it was mainly for publications. Nowadays, there are online articles, electronic works, etc., so they are also called copyrights. The original meaning of copyright is the right to copy. Anyone without copyright can freely reprint, because one characteristic of copyright is that the work should be original. Works without originality cannot constitute copyright, so laws, regulations, resolutions, decisions, orders of state agencies and other legislative and administrative , judicial documents, and their official translations; current affairs news cannot form copyrights, so reprinting them is not a big problem.
As for reprinting, Article 33 of the Copyright Law mentions: After the work is published, other newspapers and periodicals may reprint or excerpt it, except where the copyright owner declares that no reprinting or excerpting is allowed. For publication as abstracts and materials, remuneration must be paid to the copyright owner in accordance with regulations.
So, what kind of articles can be reprinted? You can refer to the following points
1. Category 1 media reports; current affairs news referred to in Article 5 of the Copyright Law, pure factual information reported through newspapers, periodicals, radio stations, television stations and other media. This pure factual information is not protected by the Copyright Law. Reprinting current news is free of charge.
2. There are articles marked for reprinting; however, there may be some conditions for this type of article. For example, reprinting is welcome, but the link and source must be retained, otherwise it is not allowed. Reprinting, if there is such an explanation, when reprinting, the source must be retained. After retaining the link and source, you can reprint at will. There are many such ones, some of which have no conditions and can be reproduced at will.
3. Laws, regulations, resolutions, decisions, orders of state agencies and other documents of a legislative, administrative and judicial nature, and their official translations; due to this It's not within the copyright, so it doesn't matter if you want to reprint it.
4. Documents that have exceeded the copyright protection periodChapter, because the copyright only has a 50-year protection period after it is published. After the expiration, it can be reproduced at will.
5. Content without originality, such as some public welfare articles , some jokes, everyone knows these, they are not original creations, and they do not constitute copyright. If you want to reprint them, just reprint them.
Of course, some people now over-protect their own copyrights, and others cannot say what they have said, which is a bit excessive, because there are only so many Chinese characters. , words like eating, sleeping, etc., if you use them, they are also used in other people’s articles, and there is no reprinting at all. If some celebrities complain to the media, it is a bit excessive. After all, celebrities may have played emperors, but they are not emperors in reality. Moreover, although emperors have taboo words, they cannot avoid taboos with just one word.
Copyright must be protected so that more people can create better works, but do not overdo it, as that will not be conducive to creation.
